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1. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
4. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
8. A light touch or stroke.
11. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
12. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
14. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
15. A worker who attaches something by nailing it.
17. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
19. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
20. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
25. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. A master's degree in fine arts.
31. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
32. Extremely pleasing.
35. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
40. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
42. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
48. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
49. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
50. The cry made by sheep.
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1. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
2. (statistics) Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
5. Before noon.
6. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
7. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
8. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
9. In bed.
10. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
16. An Eskimo hut.
18. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
21. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
23. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
24. The residue that remains when something is burned.
26. Being five more than fifty.
27. A state in midwestern United States.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
33. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
39. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
41. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
43. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
44. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
46. Being ten more than eighty.
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